Clinical guidelines of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: A systematic review

Table 1 Characteristics of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease guidelines included in this study

Author(s)/Organization(s)	Published Year	Region/country	Title	Recommendation
Chitturi et al[25]. Asia–Pacific Working Party on NAFLD (APWP 07)	2007	Asia–Pacific region	Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in the Asia-Pacific region: Definitions and overview of proposed guidelines	Not recommended
Zeng et al[26]. The Chinese National Consensus Workshop on NAFLD (China 08)	2008	China	Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of nonalcoholic fatty liver diseases	Not recommended
Loria et al[12]. Italian Association for the Study of the Liver (Italy 10)	2010	Italy	Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: A decalogue from the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver (AISF) Expert Committee	Recommended but modified
Fan et al[27]. Chinese Association for the Study of Liver Disease (China 11)	2011	China	Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: Update 2010	Not recommended
Chalasani et al[1]. American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, American College of Gastroenterology, and the American Gastroenterological Association (US 12)	2012	United States	The diagnosis and management of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: Practice Guideline by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, American College of Gastroenterology, and the American Gastroenterological Association	Recommended
The Korean Association for the Study of the Liver (South Korea 13)[13]	2013	South Korea	KASL clinical practice guidelines: Management of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease	Recommended but modified
Gao et al[28]. Study Group of Liver and Metabolism, Chinese Society of Endocrinology (China 13)	2013	China	Diagnosis and management of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and related metabolic disorders: Consensus statement from the Study Group of Liver and Metabolism, Chinese Society of Endocrinology	Not recommended
Arab et al[29]. Chilean Society of Gastroenterology (Chile 14)	2014	Chile	Management of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: An evidence-based clinical practice review	Not recommended
LaBrecque et al[14]. World Gastroenterology Organization (WGO 14)	2014	World	World Gastroenterology Organization global guidelines: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis	Not recommended
Watanabe et al[30] Japanese Society of Gastroenterology (Japan 15)	2015	Japan	Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease/nonalcoholic steatohepatitis	Not recommended
European Association for the Study of the Liver, European Association for the Study of Diabetes and European Association for the Study of Obesity (Europe 16)[2]	2016	Europe	EASL–EASD–EASO Clinical Practice Guidelines for the management of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease	Recommended

Ordered by publication year. Recommendation was developed based on AGREE II instrument. NAFLD: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.